President pranked

Russian comedians pretending to be France’s President Emmanuel Macron tricked Polish President Andrzej Duda into giving them sensitive information after a missile exploded in eastern Poland last week. Duda’s office confirmed he was put through last week to a person claiming to be the French president. The office said that appropriate services are checking how the pranksters could have reached Duda — for the second time. In 2020 they talked to him posing as the UN secretary-general. In the new recording posted on Youtube, Duda can be heard thanking a man whom he believes to be Macron. Speaking in English, Duda relays details of the missile incident, of his plans to request Nato consultations and of being careful not to exacerbate the situation with Russia, which invaded neighbouring Ukraine.